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With this post what kind of a point are you trying to make other than there are people in Florida that don't know shyt from shinola? Tell me live in Florida and I'll understand some of your senseless posts.
That's his right I suppose. Personally, I think it's idiotic, from a business standpoint. What are you left with? Junk and stolen merchandise from the crackheads and lowlifes that use pawn shops.
It's great to be where we have the choices. I'd rather him decide then the US Govt take away his right.
The Government can not ban firearms alone, especially through the use of an EO...it needs the people to follow suit. England is a good example, they did not ban firearms outright, instead they banned a select few. The people volunteered to give up the rest.
Anyhow, I realized this stems from the mass fear of President Obama banning firearms but this isn't possible. Why didn't President Clinton issue an EO banning AWs instead of going to Congress with a bill? He knew EO's are limited and only dictate the Executive Branch. Although law and superceeds congress, EOs can be challenged in court, usually on grounds that they deviate from Congresses intent or exceeds the Presidents Constitutional rights.
Its a gamble right now if you need some stock. Do you pay stupid prices and if things get banned you may not see them at even these stupid prices again? Or do you wait and hope prices fall back in a year. There will be one very hard push for the next two months to ban some things. I think they are going for the brass ring and if it fails they will say lets at least ban hi cap mags. The mags are the most valunaralbe right now. If they ban them outright from any ownership you just have to put them away in a box and not take them out. It kind of defeats the pourpose of having them. Banning hi cap mags is not going to do much to stop another shooting.
This last shooting spree has done more to put gun ownership in danger than anything we have ever seen. The house is not I believe going to pass any new gun laws and I can see filibusters in the senate. But if Obama wants to push the EO he could pass something that could cause a lot of trouble for a few years.
It seems that even the sellers of guns are having a change of heart about that business..........
"Frank James, owner of Loanstar Jewelry and Pawn, said that as he watched the news of the Newtown shootings, “I basically broke into tears and looked up on the wall, seeing the types of firearms I am selling,” and decided that he could no longer continue to sell the kinds of weapons that were used to kill first-graders."
business will go down. also, any firearms that were pawned, will have to be returned if the owner pays the loan back. he doesn't have a choice in that.
I think the owner was banking on the free publicity helping his business more than restricting his trade would hurt. Does not seem to have worked, just the one blip of free coverage in January and one Yelp review for his pawn shop.
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There will be one very hard push for the next two months to ban some things. I think they are going for the brass ring and if it fails they will say lets at least ban hi cap mags. The mags are the most valunaralbe right now. If they ban them outright from any ownership you just have to put them away in a box and not take them out. It kind of defeats the purpose of having them.
Which is why any sort of ban on magazines or "Black Rifles" without a grandfather clause or "buyback" would immediately be challenged on constitutional grounds (takings), and almost certainly overturned.
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This last shooting spree has done more to put gun ownership in danger than anything we have ever seen. The house is not I believe going to pass any new gun laws and I can see filibusters in the senate.
Well, it's nearly six months later, and nothing has changed on the federal level.
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But if Obama wants to push the EO he could pass something that could cause a lot of trouble for a few years.
That's not how an EO works. There is very little Obama could do, other than muck around with imports.
It seems that even the sellers of guns are having a change of heart about that business..........
"Frank James, owner of Loanstar Jewelry and Pawn, said that as he watched the news of the Newtown shootings, “I basically broke into tears and looked up on the wall, seeing the types of firearms I am selling,” and decided that he could no longer continue to sell the kinds of weapons that were used to kill first-graders."
He can do whatever he wants, it's his business that's going to suffer. You also made a reference to "the sellers of guns", it's only one "seller" and his action does not represent the thousands of pawn shops throughout the country.
Pawn shops should not take responsibility if somebody buys a gun and goes on a shooting rampage, and the buyer's criminal background checks out okay at the time they purchased the gun, even though they had mental problems.
The majority of gun buyers who go to pawn shops, or anywhere else to buy guns, are decent law-abiding citizens, the Adam Lanza Newtown case is a very rare occurrence, he did not buy the guns, his mother or father probably did and she did not take the responsibility of storing the weapons away from her mentally disturbed son.
Frank James does not like guns? How ironic, with that name would have thought otherwise. According to what the historians tell us, he and brother Jesse were quite adept at killing with their guns.
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His ploy for free publicity has failed miserably.
